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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: I invite Professor O'Sullivan to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: It is just in front of me, Professor O'Sullivan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: I thank Professor O'Sullivan for his presentation which members only received a short while ago or, possibly, yesterday evening. I am sure there will be questions arising from it as members get an opportunity to go through it. I now invite Ms Alice Leahy to make her opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: I thank Ms Leahy. I will now open the floor to members, and I ask that we keep it to five minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: We will return to the Senator's question on Dublin versus the rest of the country as we are out of time for this slot. We may be able to get an answer in the second round of questioning.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: There was a question to Professor O'Sullivan on the moratorium.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: Sorry, Professor O'Sullivan-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: We have run out of time in that slot, but we can return to the matter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: Mr. Kenny, what needs to be done to make the emergency shelters safer for people to go into?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: I invite Ms Leahy to respond to Deputy Higgins's question on simplifying the bureaucracy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: I thank Deputy Higgins for sticking to the allotted time. Is Senator Boyhan or Deputy O'Donoghue next?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: Go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: We seem to be picking up sound from someone's microphone. Will everyone except Senator Boyhan mute his or her microphone, please?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: I thank Dr. Burns. I allowed that section to run over time because the issue of homelessness among children is extremely important, given that it concerns them at the formative stage of their lives.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: That is a very significant drop and I thank Professor O'Sullivan for pointing it out. It merits further investigation and perhaps we will return to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: Sorry, I have to interrupt you because I need to move on to the next set of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: If we have time, but we are running over time at the moment as every speaker is using about seven or eight minutes. These are interesting topics and people are getting a lot of information out of this, so I am trying to manage the time as best I can. I call Senator Rebecca Moynihan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: I think the first question was to Mr. Kenny or possibly it was to Dr. Burns of Novas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: No, I think it was in regard to the comparison between the rest of the country and Dublin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness: Discussion (29 Jan 2021)
Steven Matthews: I thank Professor O'Sullivan. Does Ms Leahy want to answer the question on the vaccine roll-out for staff in services?